The project started with an initial study of visualising a Twitter feed so that it could later be ‘materialised’.
This is an illustration of the original process:

Samples:

The project changed scale when it was conceived for a large room exhibition.
We also had to address different parameters such as material constraints, size, orientation, etc.
The code was also modified to generate about 1000 tweets.

This is the process that led to the second version and final installation at the Kirkland Gallery, Harvard GSD: